Posted on 07/02/2015 3:22:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He hoped to emulate Barack Obama's memoir 'Dreams from My Father', which left a lasting impression.
With his new book out this week, Ted Cruz is doing what he does best: getting a lot of attention by attacking … just about everyone. But the political memoir that he’s calling A Time for Truth wasn’t really the book Cruz started out wanting to write, says a source close to the Texas senator and presidential candidate. In fact, Cruz was hoping to emulate the writing of a man he has called “lawless” and “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists” (among other fine epithets): Barack Obama, whose 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father left a lasting impression on Cruz, according to the source.
While A Time for Truth gives us his whole life story, including a lot about his Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, the memoir that Cruz was seriously considering writing was focused far more on his mother and themed on all the strong and loving women who have helped him get along in life. They include his Irish-Italian-descended mother Eleanor Darragh (“a best friend for as long as I can remember,” he writes in A Time for Truth), his “Tia Sonia” — his father’s kid sister who, like her brother, fought as a counterrevolutionary against Castro — his wife Heidi Nelson Cruz, his two half-sisters and of course his two daughters, Caroline and Catherine. Cruz had hoped to define his journey in a deeply personal way, outlining the importance of influential women.
Interestingly, Cruz includes in this select company his troubled half-sister Miriam, an alcoholic and drug addict who lived in a crack house and, Cruz writes in A Time for Truth, stole money from him “to feed her various addictions.” Cruz used his own money nonetheless to put Miriam’s son, Joe, into Valley Forge Military Academy, and Miriam improved for a time until dying of an overdose in 2011. Cruz considered her life story a heartbreaking tale of wasted promise. “I loved my sister, and she spent much of her life trapped by the demons of addiction and anger,” Cruz writes in A Time for Truth.
That Cruz, one of the president’s fiercest critics, should see life-story parallels with Obama isn’t surprising. Like Obama, Cruz has his own vivid tale of a difficult immigrant upbringing. And like Obama, he has an interesting and exotic father, one who spent a lot of time away. The outspoken Rafael is a former pro-Castro revolutionary who turned against Fidel and then, after escaping to the U.S. and marrying and fathering a family, opted to leave Ted and his mother before undergoing an abrupt religious conversion, returning home and becoming a pastor (and ultimately a devoted father, unlike Obama’s absentee Kenyan dad).
So why didn’t Cruz write a book that was mainly about the women in his life? “Well, he still might,” says the source. Right now he’s running for president, and he felt he needed to write a “broader memoir” making his personal and political case for the White House.
Ted’s book doesn’t compare at all with Obama’s book.
Obama lied 38 times in “Dreams From My Father”
Walker hired Brad Dayspring. Bad move.
I think domestic mass murderer Bill Ayres is said to have written one or both of the books by Obama.
I’m pretty sure Ted Cruz penned every word of his own book.
My CRUZ book came today via Amazon. In fact they refunded me $1.19 The price of the item(s) decreased after I ordered it, and Amazon gave me the lowest price.
I plan to read it tonight and will post my unbiased review tomorrow.
Happy reading. Looking forward to your review. I’m on page 91 and loving it.:)
I’m on Chapter 5. It is a riveting book.
CRUZ recants his family history without sugarcoating the good, bad, and the ugly. The book dispels any “October surprise” and allows the reader know the people and experiences that have made TED CRUZ who he is today - a tenacious legislator who loves God,America and family.
I’m about two chapters into Ted’s book, and it’s great. Not an imaginary screed like “bama’s trash.
I checked out the reviews on Amazon. So far all have give the book 5 stars except for one flaming liberal. (Freepers who have bought the book from Amazon - write a review.)
What are you trying to say? Why are you being so damn divisive (I'm assuming, from your tone)? What's the sense of it, to win over hearts to your guy by dissing the other guy? FAIL.
Another of those “unnamed sources close to Sen. Cruz” that will forever be unnamed because the source doesn’t exist.
Ignorance is what ignorance says....
[Happy reading.]
I’ve made it to page 135 - still happy reading. The behind the scenes of the Bush election and Supreme court were interesting.
Cruz actually wrote his book.
Cruz’ is not a bastard.
I’m very impressed with this book. More convinced than ever that this is the man our country needs as President.
CRUZ has been uniquely shaped to be POTUS for such a time as this.
[Strange book review.]
This book review was written by a person who doesn’t know and thus cannot understand the transforming, redeeming, unconditional love of Jesus Christ, which was a large portion of the book.
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